Minneapolis Grand Prix

6 Comets will be traveling to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the USA Swimming Minneapolis Grand Prix Meet, including coaches Tim and Phil and swimmers Jeff Williamson, Matt Tanchick, Tom Kirch and Erick Burgwardt. This meet should be a really great experience for all of us and we expect the competition to be quite good. Past Olympic Champions Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin will be there, along with many other National Team Members from Team USA.

As we have been doing for the last few National Competitions, we will be live-blogging this meet to keep our team and other interested folks up to the day insights and experiences we have. We do this so as a way to inspire our younger swimmers to this level someday and let them know just how much fun you can have and what rewards you might have in store for you with continued hard work and dedication. Jeff, Matt, Tom and Erick will have events each of the 3 days and we will be participating in relays for the first time at a National Level Competition with our club. I will provide a few helpful links below.

The meet will be held November 9-11, 2012 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, which is a very good facility that has hosted many National competitions in the past. The Grand Prix series is a series of 6 of these meets and swimmers can score point by placing. At the end of the series, the points are scored up and cash prizes are awarded. Because of the generous payouts, many of the top swimmers in the country attend these meets.

University of Minnesota Aquatic Center

Helpful Links: 

• USA SWIMMING WEBCAST - Watch the meet live while is happens.
• Golden Comets Twitter Feed - We will be updating up to the minute results.
• PSYCH SHEET - .pdf of the psych sheets for the meet (search on GCOM-NI)
• 5 Storylines to watch in Minnesota - USA Swimming article.

Good luck to all the swimmers.